Northam Elementary

Northam Elementary operates as a compact K-5 school in La Puente, California, run under Rowland Unified. Current enrollment sits at 369 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Rowland Unified runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 11,541 students. Northam Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Northam Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder is composed of 5% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Northam Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at Northam Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Northam Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.0%; this one delivers 22.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Northam Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Villacorta Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northam Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.4%.

Northam Elementary operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Northam Elementary's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 369). Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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